Dr.
William
Goforth
Born in New York, NY
Ancestors 
Husband of
Elizabeth (Wood) Goforth
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
Charlotte K. (Goforth) Lewis
Died
at age 50
in Cincinatti, Hamilton, Ohio
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Aug 2014
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Biography
William Goforth (December 26, 1766 - May 12, 1817) was an American politician and physician in Ohio and Louisiana. He administered the first smallpox vaccines and conferred the first medical degree in the frontier west, and was a delegate to write the first constitution of Louisiana. He also excavated a large number of megafauna bones at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky.
William practiced medicine in Washington, KY from 1788-1799. In 1799 he moved to Cincinnati, where he remained until 1807. He then went to Louisiana, returning to Cincinnati in 1816.[1]
At a young age, Daniel Drake had been promised to Dr. Goforth as a student. He lived in the home of William & Elizabeth Wood Goforth for 4 1/2 years.[2]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Earl Willey 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member earl_willey93
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~0.78%
Christopher Murray :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A883954 [compare], Ancestry member murraycshort
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